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Soulmate as a Verb
$16.95 Add to cartPoems of tender knowledge, buoyant survival, and Black, trans embodiment.
The simple yet fraught experience of embodiment lies at the thrumming heart of Kelsey L. Smoot’s SOULMATE AS A VERB. Bodies ma- Author: Smoot, Kelsey L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1635902827
- Language: English
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Essential Poems by Pat Parker
$19.95 Add to cartRenowned African-American, lesbian-feminist poet and performer Pat Parker wrote five collections of poetry during her lifetime, Jonestown & Other Madness, Movement in Black, Womanslaughter, Pit Stop, … [more below]
- Series: Sapphic Classic
- Author: Parker, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1944981810
- Language: English
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In the Middle of a Better World: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartWhat do we risk by living our most authentic lives? More importantly, what do we gain?
In the Middle of a Better World is a queer guide to love and identity, a collection both formally inventive and i- Author: Chemidlin, Grant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1771684364
- Language: English
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I Don’t Think I’m Straight
$16.99 Add to cart“To every woman I have ever loved, and to those I was afraid to.”
A poetic exploration of sapphic love and self-discovery from poet Isabella Dorta. In this moving collection, Letters I Will Never Send- Author: Dorta, Isabella
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 9798881605551
- Language: English
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The Valleys Are So Lush and Steep
$18.00 Add to cartThe second book of poems by Trace Peterson, The Valleys Are So Lush And Steep, attempts to answer the question: what do you do after you’ve introduced yourself? Modeling aspects of trans interiority, … [more below]
- Author: Peterson, Trace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1947817884
- Language: English
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Our Hands Hold Violence: Poems
$18.00 Add to cartA NATIONAL POETRY SERIES WINNER SELECTED AND WITH A FOREWORD BY BRENDA HILLMAN
A collection of poems that explores rural Missouri, violence, queer desire / intimacy, addiction, familial and wildlife- Series: National Poetry
- Author: Walquist, Kieron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0807021253
- Language: English
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Padam Padam: The Collected Poems
$24.95 Add to cartA posthumous celebration of the poet and provocateur Kevin Killian, Padam Padam pulses with camp, pop culture, and pleasure.
Kevin Killian–the puckish poet, playwright, novelist, scholar, and impresar… [more below]- Author: Killian, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1643622900
- Language: English
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Saint Consequence
$21.95 Add to cartMichael M. Weinstein’s debut poetry collection, Saint Consequence, meditates on the body as a site of continuous change–both painful and beautiful, elected and imposed–to explore the often tangled j
- Author: Weinstein, Michael M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1949944743
- Language: English
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Interlocutor Goddess
$17.95 Add to cart“Jasmine Reid writes a shapeful, theoretical work involved in the rigorous attending to emergent selves and the languages made in calling them into being.” –aracelis girmay
Interlocutor Goddess explor
- Series: Caapp Book Prize
- Author: Reid, Jasmine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1637681119
- Language: English
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Girl Work
$18.00 Read moreWINNER OF THE 2022 NOEMI PRESS BOOK AWARD IN POETRY
GIRL WORK, a book-length meditation on sexual violence and feminized labor, centers hybrid-form and prose poems exploring haunting, labor, sexual tra
- Author: Lisowski, Zefyr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1955992045
- Language: English
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Python with a Dog Inside It
$19.95 Add to cartSet on the marshlands of working-class southern New Jersey, Python with a Dog Inside It, the debut collection by poet Max McDonough, traces the tangled story of two gay brothers as they endeavor to su… [more below]
- Author: McDonough, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1625571755
- Language: English
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Perverts
$18.95 Add to cartPerverts traverses the psychic landscapes of Kay Gabriel and her community of friends, writers and organizers, piecing together a collective dream that both mirrors and transforms waking life.
Against
- Author: Gabriel, Kay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1643622943
- Language: English
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The Idea of an Entire Life: Poems
$18.95 Add to cartFrom award-winning Driftpile Cree poet Billy-Ray Belcourt, a dazzling exploration of love, anguish, queerness, and Indigenous resistance in the 21st century
Queer Indigenous poet Billy-Ray Belco- Series: Raised Voices
- Author: Belcourt, Billy-Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0807022403
- Language: English
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Mulholland Dive
$16.95 Add to cart“It was the year us girls had a feminine desire to go missing,” Vanessa Roveto, acclaimed author of bodys, begins her book within the remnants of a car crash, fragmenting identity, grief, and heart.
Be
- Author: Roveto, Vanessa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1960988557
- Language: English
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Self-Romancing
$17.95 Add to cartPoetry bursting with intimacy and giddy charm.
In a tonal mash-up of Jenny Holzer’s Truisms, confessional poetry, and fortune telling, Self-Romancing draws you into the amorous and obsessive inner lif- Author: Scully, L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 1635902630
- Language: English
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The New Economy
$22.00 Add to cartThe New Economy memorializes the world’s pleasures and perils told through the point of view of an aging, ungendered body.
A devotional to the ungendered vessel as it ages, dreams, and survives. A prac
- Author: Calvocoressi, Gabrielle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1556597215
- Language: English
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[insert] boy
$18.00 Add to cartWinner, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, 2016
Winner, John C Zacharis Award 2016 from Ploughshares
Winner, Lambda Literary Award, Gay Poetry, 2015
Finalist, Norma Farber First Book Award, Poetry Society of Am
- Author: Smith, Danez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: December 16 2014
- ISBN10: 1936919281
- Language: English
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Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems
$16.00 Add to cartAn arresting study of memory, perception, and the human condition, from the Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips.
Carl Phillips’s Scattered Snows, to the North is a collection about distortion and reve- Author: Phillips, Carl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 0374609160
- Language: English
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Local Woman
$17.95 Add to cartA pulpy, mytho-poetic dispatch from an “anarchist jurisdiction” that explores the liberatory possibilities of community and womanhood.
Enter: Local Woman, an archetypal figure, fresh from the forest in
- Author: Jmz, Jzl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1643622730
- Language: English
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Arrangements
$17.95 Add to cartIn their hybrid debut collection Arrangements, Esther Kondo Heller creates stunning textual & visual language that escapes the page to utter and speak past the record, the archive, and the document.
C- Author: Kondo Heller, Esther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 74
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1964499399
- Language: English
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